_________________________________________________ Monday, November 22, 1999 Monday, November 22, 1999, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Response of a laser interferometer to scalar gravitational waves" Stefano Bellucci INFN Monday, November 22, 1999, 2:00PM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Bass 333 ``The Strange Elasticity of Nematic Solids" Dr. Mark Warner Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University Monday, November 22, 1999, 2:30PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics AstroBiology Monthly Forum Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. "The Search for Life on Mars" Dr. Christopher McKay NASA Astrobiology Institute, Moffet Field, CA Monday, November 22, 1999, 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Olin Hall, Room 107 ``Combinatorial Rigidity and Some Applications" Brigitte Servatius Worcester Polytechnic Institute Coffee served at 3:40pm, Olin 118 Monday, November 22, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Flavor Asymmetry and the Origin of the Nucleon Sea" Jen-Chieh Peng Los Alamos National Laboratory Refreshments served at 4:00p.m Monday, November 22, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab. 250 ``From Interfacial Chemistry to Mesoscopic Physics: New Directions in Condensed Matter Theory" Professor Emily A. Carter, Visiting Scholar in Physics Harvard University Tea served at 4:00p.m. Jefferson Lab. 450 Monday, November 22, 1999, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Recent Results on BE Condensation: Superradiance and Coherent Matter-Wave Amplification" Professor Wolfgan Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. _______________________________________________ Tuesday, November 23, 1999 Tuesday, November 23, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Vibrational Spectra of Dissociating Molecules" C. Bradley Moore University of California, Berkeley Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, November 23 ,1999, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``The Structure of the Bacterial Flagellar Rotary Motor" Professor David DeRosier Brandeis University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, November 23, 1999, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rd fl. Seminar Room ``Gluonic Excitations:glueballs and hybrid mesons" Colin Morningstar Florida International University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, November 23, 1999, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Math/Physics Seminar Building 4 Room 159 ``Is there a Born-Infeld extension of U(N) super Yang-Mills Theory?" Professor Washington Taylor Massachusetts Institute of Technology _________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 24, 1999 No Seminars _________________________________________________ Thursday, November 25, 1999 Holiday-Thanksgiving no seminars _____________________________________________ Friday, November 26, 1999 No Seminars ____________________________